8-letter words containing b, u, r
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- carnauba — a Brazilian fan palm, Copernicia cerifera
- cerberus — a dog, usually represented as having three heads, that guarded the entrance to Hades
- cerebrum — the anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, consisting of two lateral hemispheres joined by a thick band of fibres: the dominant part of the brain in man, associated with intellectual function, emotion, and personality
- cherubic — If someone looks cherubic, they look sweet and innocent like a cherub.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- chubster — An overweight person.
- cibarium — Entomology. a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.
- ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- cleburne — a city in N Texas, near Fort Worth.
- club car — a railway carriage with comfortable extending chairs, a bar, and other comforts
- clubbers — Plural form of clubber.
- clubroom — a room used by a club for meetings, activities, socializing, etc
- clubroot — a disease of cabbages and related plants, caused by the fungus Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which the roots become thickened and distorted
- clubrush — any rush of the genus Scirpus
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- conurban — of or relating to a conurbation
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- crucible — A crucible is a pot in which metals or other substances can be melted or heated up to very high temperatures.
- crumbing — Present participle of crumb.
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- cubature — the determination of the cubic contents of something
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- cucumber — A cucumber is a long thin vegetable with a hard green skin and wet transparent flesh. It is eaten raw in salads.
- cucurbit — any creeping flowering plant of the mainly tropical and subtropical family Cucurbitaceae, which includes the pumpkin, cucumber, squashes, and gourds
- cumbered — Simple past tense and past participle of cumber.
- cumberer — Someone or something that cumbers.
- cumbrian — of or relating to Cumbria or its inhabitants
- cumbrous — cumbersome
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- curb cut — a small ramp or slope from a sidewalk to a roadway to ease passage for people in wheelchairs, bicyclists, etc.
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- curitiba — a city in SE Brazil, capital of Paraná state: seat of the University of Paraná (1946). Pop: 2 871 000 (2005 est)
- cuthbert — Saint. ?635–87 ad, English monk; bishop of Lindisfarne. Feast day: March 20
- debruise — to overlay or partly cover with an ordinary
- debugger — a program that is used to find and correct bugs in other programs
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deburred — to remove burrs from (a piece of machined work); burr.
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- delubrum — a shrine or sanctuary
- dewsbury — a town in N England, in Kirklees unitary authority, West Yorkshire: formerly a centre of the woollen industry. Pop: 54 341 (2001)
- disburse — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- disturbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disturb.
- doublers — Plural form of doubler.